Articles

01/22/2011-- 12/23/2010

The Gardner equation and the L^2-stability of the N-soliton solution of the Korteweg-de Vries equation

Multi-soliton solutions of the Korteweg-de Vries equation (KdV) are shown to be globally L2-stable, and asymptotically stable in the sense of Martel-Merle. The proof is surprisingly simple and combines the Gardner transform, which links the Gardner and KdV equations, together with the Martel-Merle-Tsai and Martel-Merle recent results on stability and asymptotic stability in the energy space, applied this time to the Gardner equation. As a by-product, the results of Maddocks-Sachs and Merle-Vega are improved in several directions.
Miguel A. Alejo Claudio Muñoz Luis Vega
11/29/2022-- 11/29/2022

On classification of non-radiative solutions for various energy-critical wave equations

Non-radiative solutions of energy critical wave equations are such that their energy in an exterior region $|x|>R+|t|$ vanishes asymptotically in both time directions. This notion, introduced by Duyckaerts, Kenig and Merle (J. Eur. Math. Soc., 2011), has been key in solving the soliton resolution conjecture for these equations in the radial case. In the present paper, we first classify their asymptotic behaviour at infinity, showing that they correspond to a $k$-parameters family of solutions where $k$ depends on the dimension. This generalises the previous results (Duyckaerts, Kenig and Merle, Camb. J. Math., 2013 and Duyckaerts, Kenig, Martel and Merle, Comm. Math. Phys., 2022) in three and four dimensions. We then establish a unique maximal extension of these solutions.
Charles Collot Thomas Duyckaerts Carlos Kenig Frank Merle
07/02/2024-- 03/11/2024

Zero-Shot ECG Classification with Multimodal Learning and Test-time Clinical Knowledge Enhancement

Electrocardiograms (ECGs) are non-invasive diagnostic tools crucial for detecting cardiac arrhythmic diseases in clinical practice. While ECG Self-supervised Learning (eSSL) methods show promise in representation learning from unannotated ECG data, they often overlook the clinical knowledge that can be found in reports. This oversight and the requirement for annotated samples for downstream tasks limit eSSL's versatility. In this work, we address these issues with the Multimodal ECG Representation Learning (MERL}) framework. Through multimodal learning on ECG records and associated reports, MERL is capable of performing zero-shot ECG classification with text prompts, eliminating the need for training data in downstream tasks. At test time, we propose the Clinical Knowledge Enhanced Prompt Engineering (CKEPE) approach, which uses Large Language Models (LLMs) to exploit external expert-verified clinical knowledge databases, generating more descriptive prompts and reducing hallucinations in LLM-generated content to boost zero-shot classification. Based on MERL, we perform the first benchmark across six public ECG datasets, showing the superior performance of MERL compared against eSSL methods. Notably, MERL achieves an average AUC score of 75.2% in zero-shot classification (without training data), 3.2% higher than linear probed eSSL methods with 10\% annotated training data, averaged across all six datasets. Code and models are available at https://github.com/cheliu-computation/MERL
Che Liu Zhongwei Wan Cheng Ouyang Anand Shah Wenjia Bai Rossella Arcucci
04/25/2006-- 03/15/2006

The Elements of the Neutrino Mass Matrix: Allowed Ranges and Implications of Texture Zeros

We study the range of the elements of the neutrino mass matrix m_nu in the charged lepton basis. Neutrino-less double beta decay is sensitive to the ee element of m_nu. We then analyze the phenomenological implications of single texture zeros. In particular, interesting predictions for the effective mass can be obtained, in the sense that typically only little cancellation due to the Majorana phases is expected. Some cases imply constraints on the atmospheric neutrino mixing angle.
A. Merle W. Rodejohann
09/28/2006-- 09/28/2006

Probability of hitting a distant point for the voter model started with a single one

The goal of this work is to find the asymptotics of the hitting probability of a distant point for the voter model on the integer lattice started from a single 1 at the origin. In dimensions 2 or 3, we obtain the precise asymptotic behavior of this probability. We use the scaling limit of the voter model started from a single 1 at the origin in terms of super-Brownian motion under its excursion measure. This invariance principle was stated by Bramson, Cox and Le Gall, as a consequence of a theorem of Cox, Durrett and Perkins. Less precise estimates are derived in dimensions greater than 4.
Mathieu Merle
10/31/2007-- 10/31/2007

Dynamic of threshold solutions for energy-critical NLS

We consider the radial energy-critical non-linear focusing Schr\"odinger equation in dimension N=3,4,5. An explicit stationnary solution, W, of this equation is known. In a previous work by C. Carlos and F. Merle, the energy E(W) has been shown to be a threshold for the dynamical behavior of solutions of the equation. In the present article, we study the dynamics at the critical level E(u)=E(W) and classify the corresponding solutions. This gives in particular a dynamical characterization of W.
Thomas Duyckaerts Frank Merle
10/31/2007-- 10/31/2007

Dynamic of threshold solutions for energy-critical wave equation

We consider the energy-critical non-linear focusing wave equation in dimension N=3,4,5. An explicit stationnary solution, $W$, of this equation is known. The energy E(W,0) has been shown by C. Kenig and F. Merle to be a threshold for the dynamical behavior of solutions of the equation. In the present article we study the dynamics at the critical level E(u_0,u_1)=E(W,0) and classify the corresponding solutions. We show in particular the existence of two special solutions, connecting different behaviors for negative and positive times. Our results are analoguous to our previous work on radial Schr\"odinger equation, but without any radial assumption on the data. We also refine the understanding of the dynamical behavior of the special solutions.
Thomas Duyckaerts Frank Merle
04/14/2010-- 04/14/2010

The GSI oscillation mystery

In this talk, a short discussion of the GSI anomaly is given. We discuss the physics involved using a comparison with pion decay, and explain why the observed oscillations cannot be caused by standard neutrino mixing.
Alexander Merle
03/31/2015-- 03/31/2015

Effective collision strengths between Mg I and electrons

The treatment of the inelastic collisions with electrons and hydrogen atoms are the main source of uncertainties in non-Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium (LTE) spectral line computations. We report, in this research note, quantum mechanical data for 369 collisional transitions of \ion{Mg}{I} with electrons for temperatures comprised between 500 and 20000~K. We give the quantum mechanical data in terms of effective collision strengths, more practical for non-LTE studies.
T. Merle F. Thévenin O. Zatsarinny
08/06/2020-- 05/28/2007

About Brezis-Merle Problem with Lipschitz condition

We give blow-up analysis for a Brezis-Merle's problem on the boundary. Also we give a proof of a compactness result with Lipschitz condition and weaker assumption on the regularity of the domain (smooth domain or $ C^{2,\alpha} $ domain).
Samy Skander Bahoura


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